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Not a portrait: Volume containing Theophanes’s chronicle. He writes about this ruler; the pictured passage is unidentified.
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First Bulgarian Tsardom · Khan

Pagan

≈Dates disputed: 766–767

A ruler between Toktu and Telerig; his reign dates remain uncertain.

See the sources for the dating evidence.

Biography

Life

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Chronologies give different reign dates: c. 766–767 or c. 772. Little is known about his life.

Sources · 2

Open · Pagan

Sources

  1. Ian S. R. Mladjov Bulgaria (Bălgarija): kings and emperors of the Bulgarians; princes of Bulgaria and kings of the Bulgarians Ian Mladjov’s Resources, Chronologies. Author’s working chronology, updated March 2024, 6 pp. · 2024 · 1–6
  2. John R. Martindale (editor); King’s College London Old Bulgarian Rulers Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire I (641–867). Ashgate, 2001; KCL online edition. · 2001

Images

Not a portrait

Unknown scribe · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Volume containing Theophanes’s chronicle. He writes about this ruler; the pictured passage is unidentified.

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Unidentified copyist; texts by Syncellus and Theophanes; digitisation: National Library of France; Wikimedia Commons; Public domain. Two pages from a later copy of chronicles: BnF Supplément grec 327. This is not a record of the council of 681. The passage has not been identified as an account of Asparuh. Processed image.